Arkanoid - Eternal Battle
Skip · Action · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 13, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 5.5h 45.2h to 100%
- Value
- $1.82/hr
- Reviews
- 63% of 387 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Discover or re-discover, the emblematic block breaker game in a fully modernized version! Classic elements from the franchise will definitely make a comeback, with a brand-new look, new rules, as well as new effects, bonuses and features!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce 9500 GT / ATI(AMD) Radeon HD4650, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
39 discounts in the 4 years on record, a median of 90 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 69 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 90 percent. Bombergrounds: Reborn (free, scores 67) outscores it, and so does Orbt XL ($0.59, scores 95). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Arkanoid - Eternal Battle
This site sampled 242 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 143 reviews written there were positive, against 63 percent overall, and those are 59 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 5.5 hours; clearing it takes 45, which is 8.2 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 5.5 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
26% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 3 when we last checked, on Oct 4, 06:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Every change in the Neo mode is worse than the original mechnanics. The graphics are distracting, low quality, and add nothing, and are somehow even worse in the multiplayer mode (which is really just competitive single-player with forced overlays of the other players). The forced CRT mode is only removeable by the genius dev who added a README instructing you to made it an editable LUA file, but that's not enough...
1 more review, not recommended
Cons - No option to fine tune sensitivity. Ito only has level 1 to 5. I am in the position where 2 is too slow while 3 is too fast. - The retro version of Arkanoid for NES or arcade is not even full screen and presented as POV in front of an arcade cabinet. - Semi-transparent background where when you change position during PvP, you can see your opponents' screens passing through; which is quite disruptive. - When...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Arkanoid - Eternal Battle scores 13/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1717270/arkanoid-eternal-battleReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.